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Green Velvet & Monday Drive

Beyond Plastic Buzz
24 October 2017

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Jayne Paramor, Deputy Director of the Boomerang Alliance chats about bringing business, science, and community together for the world's first conference to end plastic pollution, October 31st - Nov 1 www.beyondplasticpollutionconference.org.au

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